This research seminar will explore the way the human individual is viewed in disciplines that use experimental method and might use human subjects, and compare it with the way the human individual is viewed in legal thought. Topics may include the question of consent and the application of the Nuremberg Code, comparison of the justification and limits of experimentation on non-human subjects, the record of specific human experimentation now viewed as atrocity and the problem of the use of knowledge gained thereby, the history of eugenics, and the definition of disease or defect for purposes of genetic engineering. Each member of the seminar will write and present a research paper. Meetings may be held at the instructor’s home.